{"id":2163,"date":"2022-06-22T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:21:58","slug":"windrush-day-22-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/06\/22\/windrush-day-22-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Windrush Day 22 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/06\/wind-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2164\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks the 5th national Windrush Day and 74 years since more than 500&nbsp;Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, upon the request of the British Government, arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, to help rebuild Britain after World War II. An estimated half a million people made their way to England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/06\/wind-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2165\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the SS Empire Windrush docked on 22 June 1948,&nbsp;those who arrived on the ship and their descendants have made and continue to make an enormous contribution to Britain,&nbsp;not just in the vital work of rebuilding the country and public services, but in enriching our shared social, economic, cultural and religious life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Windrush Generation were met with racism and intolerance and, even years later, their citizenship was still being wrongly denied. Windrush Day was first introduced in 2018 and is a chance to honour the generation that helped build the society we know today, while also understanding the hardships and sacrifices they have endured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/06\/wind-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2166\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 5th national Windrush Day and 74 years since more than 500&nbsp;Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, upon the request of the British Government, arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, to help rebuild Britain after World War II. An estimated half a million people made their way to England. Since the SS Empire Windrush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/06\/22\/windrush-day-22-june\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windrush Day 22 June&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}